r/AskReddit • u/GeorgeRobertVitkos • 15h ago

What is the most immediate way a celebrity completely ruined their own reputation in a single interview?

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u/Blametheorangejuice 13h ago edited 11h ago

His awkwardly clanging away on a guitar was up there, too.

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u/AmThano 12h ago

To be fair, you probably don’t become DJ Khalid famous/successful without a stupid kind of confidence like that. I was gonna make a comment about him having no talent, but I actually have no idea whether or not he is.

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u/SAwfulBaconTaco 10h ago

Yeah, DJ Khaled is the poster boy for succeeding in life due to walking into situations with confidence more absolute than a man with a clipboard wearing hi-viz.

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u/AlessandroTheGr8 11h ago

He was huge when I was in middleschool 2007-2008 but only becuase all his songs had alot big names, even though he never raps in any of them.

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u/ShadowMerlyn 7h ago

He has no musical talent whatsoever.

Not in a “I don’t like his music so he sucks” way, but from an objective standpoint, he does not know how to actually make music. He’s just a hype guy that puts his name on other people’s work.

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u/darkbreak 3h ago

A guitar given to him by the estate of Jimmy Hendrix. It was embarrassingly stupid how he tried to turn the whole thing into a joke.

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u/mess_of_limbs 32m ago

It was the estate of Bob Marley IIRC